Group Expedition · March 2027
On March 20th, 2027, we'll be standing at Killarumiyoq watching an alignment that was engineered thousands of years ago still work exactly as designed. Getting there takes twelve days through the most impossible stonework in South America.
They get forty minutes at Sacsayhuaman, a guide reciting the copper-chisel story, and a gift shop. Then they go home and tell people they've seen it.
This is not that trip. We go to the sites that don't appear on the standard circuit — Naupa Iglesia, Mau'Kallaqta, Inkilltambo — and we stay long enough to actually look at them. You will leave with better questions than you arrived with. That's the whole point.
Build Your Trip
The twelve-day main tour is the core, and it stands on its own. Bolt on the coast pre-tour, the Easter Island extension, both, or neither.
March 14–25, 2027 · 12 days
The main event. Twelve days through the Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, and the polygonal stonework nobody can explain — timed so we're standing at Killarumiyoq for the equinox.
Own room: +$1,000 single supplement
March 10–13, 2027 · 4 days
Four days on the coast before the main group lands. Elongated skulls, the Nazca Lines from the air, and a sand oasis in the middle of the desert.
Aaron is finalizing this — ask when you book.
March 26–30, 2027 · 5 days
Five days on the most remote inhabited island on Earth. Group flights from Lima are included in the price — no separate airfare to sort out.
Own room: +$500
Day by Day
Land in Lima, settle into Hotel San Antonio Miraflores. Welcome dinner that night — first chance to meet whoever else signed up for this.
Ballestas Islands by boat in the morning. Then the elongated skull museum, which is the part most people can't stop thinking about afterward. Paracas National Reserve in the afternoon.
A real oasis surrounded by enormous dunes. ATVs and sandboarding. This is the day that's purely fun — no ruins, no theories, just the desert.
Morning flight over the Nazca Lines. You cannot understand the scale of these from the ground; from the air it reorganizes your thinking. Beach time at Paracas after, then back to Lima where the full group assembles.
Fly into Cusco, 11,000 feet. We take the first day slow on purpose — altitude is real and pushing it ruins the rest of the trip. Easy walk through the old city.
Down into the Sacred Valley, which sits lower than Cusco and helps you adjust. Terracing, stonework, and the first real look at construction that doesn't match the official timeline.
The one everybody knows — but we go looking at the things the standard tour walks straight past. Bring questions.
A carved altar inside a cave, cut with precision that has no business existing where it does. One of Aaron's favorite sites on the continent, and almost nobody goes.
Off the tourist map entirely. Stonework that raises the same question every site on this trip raises.
We arrive at Killarumiyoq the day before to walk the site in daylight and understand what we're looking at, so the ceremony morning isn't spent orienting.
The reason the dates are what they are. The equinox at Killarumiyoq, on site, watching alignment that was engineered thousands of years ago still do exactly what it was built to do. This is the center of the trip.
Two-hundred-ton blocks fitted so tightly you can't slide paper between them. Mainstream archaeology says copper chisels and river stones. Stand there and decide for yourself.
Hydraulic engineering that still works perfectly. Water channels cut with a grade control that would be respectable today.
Remote, rarely visited, and worth the drive. Carved bedrock and structures most visitors to Peru never hear about.
Carved stone and cave complexes on the edge of Cusco that somehow stay empty. A strong final site.
Final breakfast together. Fly home, or carry on to Easter Island with the extension group.
Group flight from Lima, included in the price. Five and a half hours over open Pacific to the most isolated inhabited island on the planet.
Fifteen moai standing in a row against the ocean. Sunrise here is the photograph everyone has seen and almost nobody has stood in front of.
The quarry where the moai were carved, with hundreds still in place — some finished, some half-cut out of the rock, abandoned mid-work.
Orongo on the crater rim, the birdman cult site, and the petroglyphs. The whole island is an open archaeological question.
The lava tube caves in the morning — carved chambers and openings that frame the ocean — then flights home.
No Surprises
How Payment Works
You don't pay for the whole trip up front. A quarter holds your spot, and the rest is split across two dates before departure.
Non-refundable. This is what holds your spot.
December 14, 2026.
January 28, 2027.
On the non-refundable deposit: the day you book, money leaves to lock permits, hotel blocks, domestic flights, and equinox access. None of that comes back. That's why the deposit can't be refunded — and why travel insurance is required, not suggested. Insurance covers you if life gets in the way. The deposit can't.
Reserve Your Spot
Pick your segments below and the deposit updates as you go. The group is deliberately small — when it's full, it's full.
Straight Answers
Moderate. You should be comfortable walking three to four miles on uneven ground and handling stairs at altitude. There's no climbing or technical hiking. If you can manage a full day of walking a city without misery, you'll be fine. The altitude is the real factor, not the terrain — which is why the schedule is built around acclimatizing properly.
Cusco is roughly 11,000 feet and it affects almost everyone a little. The itinerary drops into the Sacred Valley early on purpose to help you adjust. Drink far more water than feels reasonable, skip alcohol the first two days, and talk to your doctor about acetazolamide before you travel. In ten years of leading these, altitude has never ended anyone's trip.
Deliberately small. This isn't a coach tour with forty people and a flag. Small enough that you can actually ask a question at a site and get a real answer, and small enough to get into places large groups simply cannot go.
No. The main tour, March 14–25, stands on its own and is the core trip. The pre-tour and the Easter Island extension are add-ons — take either, both, or neither. Plenty of people do just the twelve days.
Prices are per person based on two people sharing. Travelling alone? Either pay the single supplement for your own room, or tell us and we'll try to match you with another solo traveler of the same gender — no supplement if we find a match. There's a spot on the form for it.
Because the moment you book, money goes out the door — permits, hotel blocks, domestic flights, and equinox access at Killarumiyoq all get locked in advance and none of it comes back. The deposit covers commitments already made on your behalf. This is exactly why travel insurance is mandatory: insurance covers you if life happens, the deposit can't.
You get a receipt immediately, and Aaron personally emails you within 24 hours with your confirmation, a full pre-departure pack, packing guidance, and the flight details you'll need. You're not going to be left wondering whether it went through.
No. It's not a performance staged for visitors. We're at the site for the alignment itself, at the right hour on the right day, because that's what the site was built for. Treat it with respect and it's the most memorable morning of the trip.
Something not answered here? Ask Aaron directly.